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PI SCOOP … TRADE ASSOCIATIONS PREPARE TO FIGHT OBAMA LOBBY MEASURE: The Key Industries Associations Committee — a part of ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership — is preparing to strike back at an Obama administration proposal restricting government employees from attending educational programs, trade shows and similar events conducted by nonprofit organizations and trade associations.

A source close to the group tells PI that several trade association leaders will kick off their pushback in a letter to supporters that promises a “very aggressive, well-conceived strategy” to “fight this ill-advised rule,” which trade associations fear will limit their members’ access to government officials. The pitch is signed by ASAE President and Chief Executive Officer John Graham IV, American Beverage Association President and Chief Executive Officer Susan Neely, National Retail Federation President and Chief Executive Officer Matthew Shay and American Frozen Food Institute President and Chief Executive Officer Kraig Naasz.

LOBBYIST LEAGUE ANNUAL MEETING JELLS: The American League of Lobbyists is prepping for its annual meeting on Nov. 16, which Executive Director Danielle Staudt Abe says will be a “candid discussion on the hurdles that both the Congress and the administration have presented lobbyists and whether these policies have accomplished their intended goals or, instead, actually led to a decrease in transparency and disclosure.”

Former U.S. Senate Assistant Historian Kathryn Jacob will be on hand at the Marriott Metro Center to discuss her book, “King of the Lobby: The life and Times of Sam Ward.” Also on tap: The Wall Street Journal’s Brody Mullins, Fortune magazine’s Tory Newmyer and POLITICO’s own John Bresnahan will compose a panel that will “discuss the business, profession and ethical quandaries of lobbying in today's challenging environment.”

A glorious Wednesday to you, PI readers, on this, the 35th anniversary of Jimmy Carter defeating Gerald Ford for the presidency, the 63rd anniversary of Thomas E. Dewey defeating Har … that is, Harry S. Truman defeating Dewey and the 122nd anniversary of Anna’s home state of North Dakota becoming a bona fide part of the United States. (Yeah, same for South Dakota, too.)

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In the meantime, we’re out today with a NEW PI CONTEST!

During the past few weeks, a number of super PACs have sprung up, many promising to take advantage of new election laws and raise and spend unlimited sums of money to advocate for or against political candidates. That’s great, and all. But we’ve got to say, for being so “super,” a number of them feature decidedly uninspired names. YG Action Fund — uh, OK. TEA PAC — couldn’t we at least spice it up with chamomile? And Parents for a Brighter Future might need to explain where we’ll find the parents advocating for a dimmer future for their children.

Therefore, your challenge is as follows: Suggest to us your own super PAC, and explain what kind of candidate (or candidates) it would support. Authors of the most creative, nonboring, anti-white bread super PAC name proposals will be featured in Friday’s edition of PI — and win a copy of Timothy Garton Ash’s book “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name.” http://bit.ly/uIBgam

ANTI-CITIZENS UNITED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROPOSED: The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are better than it passing. But that’s not preventing Sens. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) from introducing a constitutional amendment that aims to undo the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which allowed corporations, unions and special interests to raise and spend unlimited sums of money, including from their treasuries, to advocate for or against political candidates whenever they pleased.

Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) participated with Udall and Bennet in an event Tuesday announcing the amendment. Amending the Constitution ranks among the most difficult achievements in federal politics, as one must be approved by two-thirds of both the House and Senate, then be ratified by three-fourths of the nation’s state legislatures.

ANIMAL ADVOCACY YES, PLINKO NO: Former “Price is Right” host Bob Barker scaled Capitol Hill today — and no, he did not yodel and fall off the edge after improperly guessing the value of a cup of coffee at the Rayburn Cafeteria — to lobby lawmakers about an issue even closer to his heart than game shows: animals. Barker this morning pressed the House Committee on Appropriations’s Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Subcommittee to support the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act, which aims to restrict the use of exotic animals in circuses.

Barker, in remarks released before his appearance, said: “Big, wild animals should not be part of the traveling circus and simply put, animal acts in circuses are antiquated and belong in the past, in a time when humans were ignorant about the needs of the other species who share our planet.” Actress Jorja Fox, who portrays Sara Sidle on CBS crime program CSI, also attended the hearing.

WASHINGTON RESEARCH GROUP DESCRIBES ‘SUPER DUPER’ COMMITTEE: A six-member “super duper committee” has developed inside of Congress’s debt-slashing supercommittee. That’s the analysis out today from the Washington Research Group, a division of MF Global that provides D.C. financial industry lobbying clients with insight and analysis on government policy,

Research analyst Chris Krueger writes: “Half of the supercommittee members have formed an unofficial super duper subcommittee within the 12-member supercommittee and are seeking to put together a $1.2T-$1.5T deficit reduction plan over 10 years. The 6 bipartisan and bicameral members are: Reps. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio). These six are the leading pragmatists on the supercommittee.” Read Krueger’s full analysis here: http://politi.co/tTOfTa

EMILY’S LIST UPS SUPPORT FOR OREGON CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE:EMILY’s List’s Women Vote! organization added $14,289 to its ledger of independent support for Democratic congressional candidate Suzanne Bonamici, a state senator who’s seeking to replace Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.), who resigned this year amid a sex scandal. That brings Women Vote!’s total independent expenditures supporting Bonamici to more than $47,000 since mid-October.

BRING POPCORN … AND PICKETS? A coalition of activist organizations are planning an event it's dubbing the “Occupy the Kochs Guerrilla Drive-In,” which will serve to protest a dinner Friday evening at the Washington Convention Center sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative nonprofit organization founded by billionaire businessman David Koch.

“Protesters will enjoy political satire videos highlighting the Kochs’s efforts to preserve tax breaks for Big Oil, eliminate workers’ bargaining rights and more,” the groups wrote in a statement. Among the groups schedules to participate: Campaign for America’s Future, Campaign for Community Change, Common Cause, Health Care for America Now, Oil Change International, The Other 98%, Public Citizen, Rebuild the Dream, Tar Sands Action, True Majority and USAction.